The NYT article reporting on the conservatives' narrow victory in Denmark's election wrongly identified the Danish People's Party as taking "a hard line against immigration and Denmark’s generous welfare state."
Actually, the Danish People's Party strongly supports Denmark's welfare state (for native Danes) which is one of the reasons it is attractive to many voters. Denmark's Social Democratic party has been willing to accept some cuts to the welfare state. This has led some voters to switch from the Social Democrats to the Danish People's Party.
The article also got the outcome of the election wrong. The conservative coalition retained its majority by one vote. It will not need to form a coalition with the centrist New Alliance Party as claimed in the article.
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